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Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

Jason Segel Might Still Make that Dracula Musical

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Good One is now to video! Check us out on ⁠Vulture's Youtube channel.⁠ Jason Segel is a master of finding comedy in some of life's most painful moments, a skill he showcases as the star of the AppleTV+ hit series 'Shrinking'. This week on Good One, he shares with Vulture's Jesse David Fox everything to know about his long journey to Emmy nominee from that Dracula musical he could very well still make! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And so I was like, you know, Dracula has a really hard time with love.

0:12.4

This is Good One.

0:13.6

I am Jesse David Fox, writer at Fulcher and author of Comedy Book.

0:17.0

My guest today is Jason Siegel.

0:18.8

We talk about being one of the biggest comedy stars in the world,

0:21.6

starring on how I met your mother and making movies like Forgetting Sarah Marshall,

0:25.6

and how he had to take a bit of a break after that crazy moment in time to figure out what he really wanted to do with his work.

0:32.6

Which brought him to shrinking, the Apple TV Plus show he stars in,

0:35.6

about a therapist who has to put himself

0:37.5

and his life back together after his wife dies. Jason is easily one of the biggest, most

0:42.5

revolutionary comedic writers and performers of my lifetime, and we get into how he did it.

0:49.3

So here is Jason Sequel.

0:50.3

Thank you for joining me.

0:51.3

That's my pleasure.

0:52.3

It's good to see you.

0:53.3

So I want to start where you currently are as a creator, artist, actor. So as we're speaking,

0:58.9

you're currently shooting the third season of shrinking, a show which comes 25 years into a career

1:04.4

of making comedy with varying doses of drama and sort of the reverse as well. Is there a scene of yours from the show that you feel really represents where you

1:14.6

currently are as an actor?

1:16.9

Wow, that's a great question.

1:19.4

So I think there's like one scene in particular from shrinking that comes to mind is in the

1:26.9

finale of season two. give a a speech to

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